Q&A on Senate Bill 1088

The JAC website has put up a pdf file list of questions and answers about how things will work for court-appointed counsel. I admit that, even though I pay someone to help me with my billing, sorting out what gets billed at what rate depending upon when I was appointed or when the case reached disposition, or converted from a dependency to a TPR case, remains confusing, but the answers all seem to be here at this linked document.

Of particular interest is the dependency section on page 15.

Also of interest is what seems to be the answer to the question of what happens if the new Offices of Regional Counsel aren't really up and running come October 1:

"For appointments on or after October 1, 2007, through December 31, 2007, the court may appoint private counsel without referring the case to Regional Counsel, only if the court makes a written finding that Regional Counsel is not sufficiently operational at the time of appointment to assume representation for that particular case"